The weather is getting hotter and hotter, and Qingyun Zhai's glass has chosen another store called Qingyun Glass Shop, which specializes in selling glass, and has also added various services related to glass.

Because it is the height of summer, the number of people buying glass is still not increasing, but there is a downward trend.

However, the glass workshop has increased the production volume, and the melting of glass and many processes have been transferred to the shed.

Although it is now the off-season for glass sales, the glass industry must prepare for the supply of glass sales to increase after entering the autumn.

In addition, before the Chinese New Year, there will also be a peak sales season, which must be prepared.

Qiao Chensheng was in charge of the glass shop, and he also took two sons of the Xia family to conduct glass formula experiments.

The various ore ingredients they can get are added to the basic formula of the glaze, and they have been fired for two rounds, and they have a basic understanding of the various properties of raw materials and ingredients.

Preparations are now underway for mold firing.

The glass craftsmen on the other side are blowing the glass cylinders uninterruptedly, and the other processes such as cutting, softening, flattening, and annealing are completed by the house slaves who were bought later.

Just after this day, Xia Yanqing was watching the newly recruited casting craftsmen make a few landscape-shaped glass molds, but he saw Xinxiu coming in a hurry.

"What's wrong?" Xia Yanqing didn't wait for Xinxiu to speak, and asked first.

"Auntie, that Huang Qiurong Huang girl is outside, and said to the janitor, she is your good sister, you don't need to see her, you have to come in if you don't pass the word. The old man of the porter is in the way, but I am afraid that it will not last long. Xinxiu said anxiously.

The two mold makers looked at each other in amazement.

Nowadays, everyone in the capital knows that the Qingyun glaze workshop has the secret art of making glass and glaze, and the workshop is very strict inside and outside.

Craftsmen like them do their own thing in their own places and don't touch glass and glass manufacturing. There is no opportunity or permission to walk around and watch what is being done in other yards.

Can this good sister of the proprietor browse glass and glass production at will?

Xia Yanqing frowned, told the mold casting craftsmen and apprentices to continue to work, and walked out of the courtyard with Xinxiu.

Today, the kiln has more than doubled in size, and the expanded area is used for glass production.

But there is also a courtyard called the auxiliary workshop, which is used to house craftsmen who make molds and polish glass.

These craftsmen have nothing to do with glass making, they are all foreign employees, although they have signed the helper paperwork for three to five years, and there are confidentiality agreements, but in order to avoid unnecessary trouble, they are concentrated in the auxiliary workshop to work, and they are not allowed to go to the glass and glass workshop.

The glass workshop is divided into three courtyards according to the workload, and the courtyard wall is only more than one person high, just to demarcate the boundaries and avoid outsiders from entering by mistake.

In addition, the workshop for making glass occupies a separate courtyard.

Xia Yanqing was not afraid that Huang Qiurong would enter the workshop to watch by himself.

According to Huang Qiurong's disdain and dislike for craftsmen revealed from time to time, it is impossible to enter the workshop.

It's the middle of June now, it's the middle of summer, the rough men in the workshop are sweating, and they can't wait to go into battle shirtless, where is the scene that Huang Qiurong can bear?

She was afraid that Huang Qiurong would bring other unsophisticated servants, but those people didn't have so many scruples.

When Xia Yanqing walked out of the auxiliary workshop, Qiao Chensheng, who heard the report, also walked out of the glazed workshop.

When he saw Xia Yanqing, he hurried over and asked, "I heard that my aunt's sister is here, and she will go in before she gets the word." It can't be five girls and six girls, right? ”

Qiao Chensheng was a slave bought by the Xia family when he was young, he had never served in the old mansion, but he also knew that there were still two girls in the old mansion who had not left the pavilion.

Xia Yanqing stopped and said, "It's not a sister, it's just an acquaintance." You don't have to go there, just settle the people, keep an eye on the courtyards, and don't let the faces come close. ”

Qiao Chensheng relieved his heart and took the order.

Xia Yanqing is also just in case, the glass advantage that Qingyun Glass is now operating is all about blowing the liquid glass into a straight cylinder.

This method is relatively untechnical, as long as you learn the blowing technique of glass, the average glass craftsman can do it.

In other words, the only rarity of mirrored glass is that it is "unexpected".

In the world where Xia Yanqing grew up, there was a gap of more than 1,000 years between the emergence of glassblowing technology and the use of the blowpipe method to make flat glass.

For more than 1,000 years, many methods have been used to make flat glass, but no one thought of blowing the glass into a smooth glass tube, and then cutting it longitudinally, softening and flattening it.

Now, as long as an outsider enters the workshop and sees the glass cylinder, or even sees the longitudinal cutting glass cylinder, even if it is a layman, and tells the situation he sees, I am afraid that it will not take a few days for a craftsman who has operated the liquid glass to understand the key.

Xia Yanqing turned around a low wall with a beautiful heart and a good face, and Huang Qiurong also took two maids and two mothers-in-law and walked towards the depth of the workshop.

Xia Yanqing piled up a smile on his face, and hurried over: "I didn't know that Miss Huang was coming, and I didn't greet it in time, and I hope Miss Huang won't be surprised." ”

While talking, he stretched out his hand to invite Huang Qiurong to the living room outside: "Miss Huang, please here, I have just instructed my subordinates to prepare herbal tea and fruits." On this hot day, Miss Huang will drink a cup of tea and rest her feet first, and then let's talk. ”

Huang Qiurong paused, made a fearless look, and said, "Not long after I came out, I was sitting in the car again. No need to rest. It's my sister, I came early in the morning, my sister didn't mention that she was tired, what did Qiu Rong have to be tired of? ”

As he spoke, he took Xia Yanqing's arm and said coquettishly: "Qiu Rong heard that Sister Xia bought another storefront, specializing in crystal glass. Qiu Rong was really envious, and came over to see what earth-shattering techniques her sister used to make such a magical thing. ”

Xia Yanqing pulled out his arm and said with a smile: "This is not good, this is a trade secret, and it is also the foundation of my family's business." Miss Huang should not watch it, lest she cause unnecessary trouble after watching it. ”

"This, this," Huang Qiurong looked hurt, "Sister Xia, I'm sorry, I'm Qiu Rong is ignorant." I didn't mean anything else, I was just curious about my sister's skills, and wanted to see how such magical things were made. I'm sorry, Qiu Rong embarrassed my sister. ”

Xia Yanqing smiled: "It's okay, don't be embarrassed." Come and come, let's go to the living room to drink tea and eat some fruit snacks. Miss Huang doesn't dislike the craftsmen who do things here, and Yanqing is already very grateful. ”

Huang Qiurong was helpless, so he had to walk forward with Xia Yanqing, looking around as he walked: "My sister's workshop is a yard with a yard, I thought that the craftsmen were all gathered together to do things, but I didn't expect to be so exquisite." ”

The two mothers-in-law who followed Huang Qiurong's side seemed to follow Huang Qiurong's gaze unintentionally, and they were also carefully looking at the layout of the big courtyard.

Xia Yanqing frowned and said, "It's nothing to pay attention to, it's just that there are many people doing things, and it's easy to manage separately." ”

"That's it," Huang Qiurong nodded, and suddenly asked with a smile, "Isn't my sister's glass method very simple, otherwise, why can't even a boudoir woman like Qiurong who doesn't know anything take a look?" ”